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Awkward Interim. Aside from his talent hunt, Nixon's foremost chore for the next nine weeks is making plans to revise the fiscal 1970 budget that Johnson's men are already preparing. In his last State of the Union message, the President may well ask Congress to enact a raft of domestic programs of Johnsonian scope. Nixon's inaugural speech will have to offer constructive alternatives. For that reason, the President-elect must soon devote considerable attention to specific legislation and budgetary requests...
...McDonnell Douglas' new DC-10 air bus have designed the emergency ladder leading from the lower service level to the abovedeck public cabin with rungs that are relatively far apart. "If dresses get long again," says a company spokesman, "we can always change ladders." A more far-reaching chore is that of doing something about bathtubs, which might make a lot more sense if they were equipped with reclining backs, more handholds and nonslip surfaces. The number of man-hours that anthropometric professionals have spent inside experimental bathtubs is incalculable, but bathroom plumbing has generally resisted comfort-making changes...
...nursery schools for three-and four-year-olds in 1966, he discovered that "the neighborhood school" was not as hallowed a concept as bussing opponents often suggest. Preschool tots normally have to be driven to school by parents; most mothers were delighted when the buses took over this chore...
...taking any support from Javits can be a difficult chore, as O'Dwyer is learning. O'Dwyer is a veteran defender of civil rights cases, which he often took for little or no fee; he hopes to cut deeply into his opponent's strength among Negroes. His involvement in gunrunning to embattled Israeli freedom fighters in 1948 also gives him the hope of cracking Javits' near monopoly on; New York's more than 1.7 million Jewish votes. But O'Dwyer remains an all but certain loser to one of the best vote getters...
Epstein feels that if this "head start" approach to the teaching of science spreads, more research-oriented professors will willingly teach undergraduates. For most of them, the chance to explain their life's work is no chore...